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Deep Space: The new frontier of radiation controls
In commercial nuclear power, there has always been a deliberate tension between the regulator and the utility owner. The regulator fundamentally exists to protect the worker, and the utility, to make a profit. It is a win-win balance.
From the U.S. nuclear industry has emerged a brilliantly successful occupational nuclear safety record—largely the result of an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) process that has driven exposure rates down to what only a decade ago would have been considered unthinkable. In the U.S. nuclear industry, the system has accomplished an excellent, nearly seamless process that succeeds to the benefit of both employee and utility owner.
J. R. Duke, N. E. Elliott, J. E. Moore, V. M. Gomez, R. Manzanares, G. Rivera, R. Watt, W. S. Varnum, P. L. Gobby
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 35 | Number 2 | March 1999 | Pages 90-94
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST99-A11963908
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At scales appropriate to the National Ignition Facility, calculations indicate double shell capsules reach ignition conditions with room temperature fuel. Los Alamos is laying the groundwork for these double shell ignition targets with a preliminary campaign on Nova. The target design features a 260 μm O.D. inner glass capsule with an I.D. of approximately 200 μm, containing deuterium gas, centered inside a machined polymer shell. The central capsule was supported either with a 30 mg/cc foam or with two polymer films, each less than 0.1 μm in thickness. The materials, machining, assembly, and characterization of the targets are discussed.
